| 2010-06-01 15:53:53 |
Graham Inggs |
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Binary package hint: usb-creator
I ran into a problem using usb-creator-gtk to create a live USB disk. I created the disk on a machine with 4GB RAM without error, but the resultant USB disk would not boot. I then tried created the USB disk on a machine with only 1GB RAM and received the message that the md5sums did not match.
After some experimenting and running md5sum manually I discovered the USB disk had a few bad blocks which do not report read or write errors when accessed. Dropping the filesystem cache or unmounting and mounting the target disk before checking the md5sums should detect this kind of failure. |
Binary package hint: usb-creator
I ran into a problem using usb-creator-gtk to create a live USB disk. I first created the disk on a machine with 4GB RAM without error, but the resultant USB disk would not boot. I then tried creating the USB disk on a machine with only 1GB RAM and received the message that the md5sums did not match.
After some experimenting and running md5sum manually I discovered the USB disk had a few bad blocks which do not report read or write errors when accessed. Dropping the filesystem cache or unmounting and mounting the target disk again before checking the md5sums should detect this kind of failure.
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